Artist runs riot in former BBC TV HQ before it's demolished

There is avant-garde filmmaking, Moroccan literature and Berber storytelling in a new art installation opening in the BBC's soon-to-be demolished Television Centre. Doctor Who's Tardis, Daleks and 1980s newsreader Jan Leeming also feature.

The unlikely mix can be found in a vast work by British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers, who this summer is taking over the now empty drama block at the BBC's former home in White City, west London.

Commissioned by arts organisation Artangel, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers consists of films, sounds and stories, all taking place in a building used to paint and build TV sets before their construction was moved to the main BBC studios.

"Walking in here was incredible," says Rivers. "It was exactly the kind of place I was thinking of - it has a history seeped in its walls."

Rivers' work brings together his various obsessions, notably filmmaking, set building and the late Morocco-based American writer Paul Bowles. All are presented in a fascinating building where the ghosts of BBC past can still be felt.

In the frame room, Artangel's co-director Michael Morris points to a late 50s machine used to raise and lower set backgrounds for painting purposes. Some say it was an inspiration for the Tardis' console, he says. In the next room are skylights that bear an uncanny resemblance to the knobbly bits on a Dalek.

Curators also came across a store cupboard in which a large 80s photograph of a smiling Leeming hangs.